Sentence examples for a pithy observation from inspiring English sources
As he stood looking around the 18th hole, at the surf crashing below after his win, Johnson had a pithy observation.
With monetary policy almost at its limits – although the Bank of England now seems to be trying even harder – a pithy observation of Keynes's strikes a chord: "The inability of the interest rate to fall has brought down empires".
Comprising 67 paintings by 48 artists living and dead, arranged in groupings, Tightrope Walk is a kind of visual essay, with each chapter denoted by a pithy observation printed high on the walls.
Books are – duh – a different medium: I might smirk at and retweet a pithy observation on Twitter but would I really pay Barnes and Noble to read it in printed form?
Warrington of Affymetrix has a pithier observation.
In the first season, Dinklage's Tyrion provided comic relief, always ready with a pithy, cynical observation about the cut-throat world of the Seven Kingdoms.
In this volume Cooke has put together brief sketches of a potpourri of American and British notables, ranging from John Nance Garner, Franklin Roosevelt's first Vice President (best known for his pithy observation that the Vice Presidency wasn't worth a spit in a pot), to The New Yorker founder/editor Harold Ross, to Erma Bombeck, to Winston Churchill.
He showed amazing courage through his years of illness and till the end could still make the pithy observation.
I told McCoy that, once, when my wife was in the midst of giving birth, I tried to buoy her up by making the same pithy observation.
In the past four years, sites like Curbed.com, Brownstoner.com, UrbanDigs.com, TrueGotham.com and The Matrix have been scrutinizing the housing boom with pithy observation and, in some cases, snide commentary.
Mr. Champion, who died in 1980 and directed Broadway productions of "Hello, Dolly!" and "Bye Bye Birdie," among others, also made the pithy observation that the Oscar show would be great if it wasn't for "the giving out of these cotton-picking awards".
